Pattern and control of primary production
Plant growth in most ecosystems forms the base or “primary” component of the food web. The amount and type of plant growth in an ecosystem helps to determine the amount and kind of animals (or “secondary” productivity) that can survive there.
Glider observations of bio-optical properties in the coastal waters of the Santa Barbara Channel, California
Poster Number: 56 Presenter/Primary Author: Fernanda Henderik... Characterizing and understanding the vertical, temporal and spatial variability of coastal water processes at small regional and short time scales requires frequent sampling and integration of mult
Stream Ecosystem Metabolism at the Virginia Coast Reserve: A Comparison of the Conventional Open Water Technique and Eddy Correlation
Poster Number: 53 Presenter/Primary Author: Dirk Koopmans Inland waters transform or store over half of the carbon they receive, making their benthic metabolism significant to the global carbon budget.
Local adaptation and genome size do not impact Panicum virgatum (switchgrass) responses to variable precipitation timing
Poster Number: 51 Presenter/Primary Author: Kimberly O'Keefe Responses of the genetically and phenotypically diverse C4 grass species, Panicum virgatum L.
Long-term soil water dynamics across a desert basin: Broad-scale climatic drivers and local heterogeneity
Poster Number: 49 Presenter/Primary Author: Michael Duniway In arid and semiarid ecosystems, plant community composition and production is primarily limited by soil water availability. Soil profile development and soil-vegetation feedbacks can influen
Science in the time of Big Data: what happens when Google meets the Jornada LTER?
Poster Number: 48 Presenter/Primary Author: Debra Peters Big Data - large quantities of data of more types moving at faster rates – may be the greatest technological advance of the early 21st century.
